Art has prospered in era of reform

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Yang Qi's paintings, like those of others from his generation, incorporate techniques developed worldwide during a 200-year period that Chinese artists have been embracing for only a few decades. [Photo provided to China Daily]

By the late 90s, Chinese contemporary art had gained recognition and market value, both domestically and internationally, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that the art world caught onto what Chinese artists were doing and the art was accepted into the mainstream.

Many headed West with the aim of breaking free from the conventions of the traditional ink paintings that were often linked with Chinese art and artists.

Gladstone said: “There has been a historical tendency for international Western audiences to stereotype Chinese art. They see it as a kind-of non-changing repertoire of ink painting, shanshui.”

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